Not much to report here, but its worth mentioning because so many of you are excited for Avengers: Age of Ultron. It seems that Marvel will be launching a brand new team of Avengers once Jonathan Hickman ends his epic run on the flagship team and begins his yearlong saga with “Secret Wars.”
It’s hard to imagine who or what will provide the impetus for creating this all new team, but if we look back to 1975 when Marvel launched the All New All Different X-Men, we had a multicultural team for the very first time. That’s when Wolverine, Colossus, Storm, and Nightcrawler joined the fray. Now, I can’t imagine we’ll get an assortment of all new characters because there needs to be some symmetry between the film universe and the comics.
Now don’t read on if you don’t want to know possible details about Age of Ultron’s ending. But the rumor is… You’ve been warned!
The original Avengers are in pretty bad shape by the end of the film. This is being called The Empire Strikes Back of superhero movies, but the movie ends with Captain America founding an all new supergroup comprised of Black Panther, Ms. Marvel, Doctor Strange, Quicksilver, and Scarlett Witch. I’m sure they’ll be a few surprises, but I would imagine May 2015 isn’t a bad time to bring the next phase of movie superheroes to the forefront of their biggest titles on the stands.
Chances are good we’ll know the creative team, and a lot more details by this time next month.